I’ve used a few dozen languages, and noticed that most modern languages lack libraries. Coming from Python and C++ I often feel it that way. Use whatever niche language and I’ll hit the lack of power options like Python’s pandas, databases, GUIs, etc.
Clojure’s a powerful language, but with the size if its community there’s no hope of getting many alternatives on doing SQLs, for example. But, Java interop assures me I can just keep going with clojure, because I can almost always work around library issues with Java. It doesn’t even matter if I’m on a mac or ARM or 64bit (looking at you, C#).
I mean, libraries access is good. But lack of tail call optimization support is not something you’d want in a functional programming language runtime. Luckily here Clojure somehow manages to fare better than Scala.
You know, Java interop is actually a good thing.
I’ve used a few dozen languages, and noticed that most modern languages lack libraries. Coming from Python and C++ I often feel it that way. Use whatever niche language and I’ll hit the lack of power options like Python’s pandas, databases, GUIs, etc.
Clojure’s a powerful language, but with the size if its community there’s no hope of getting many alternatives on doing SQLs, for example. But, Java interop assures me I can just keep going with clojure, because I can almost always work around library issues with Java. It doesn’t even matter if I’m on a mac or ARM or 64bit (looking at you, C#).
I mean, libraries access is good. But lack of tail call optimization support is not something you’d want in a functional programming language runtime. Luckily here Clojure somehow manages to fare better than Scala.